Hunting Evil [NOOK Book]

Overview

What did a high-priced hooker and a low-class sex-offender have in common? It was-according to police-their lust for stalking, raping, and terrorizing young women and girls, in once case as young as thirteen-years-old.

Michelle Michaud and her husky-voiced boyfriend James A. "Froggy" Daveggio used to hang around the local high school in search of their prey-and are ...

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Overview

What did a high-priced hooker and a low-class sex-offender have in common? It was-according to police-their lust for stalking, raping, and terrorizing young women and girls, in once case as young as thirteen-years-old.

Michelle Michaud and her husky-voiced boyfriend James A. "Froggy" Daveggio used to hang around the local high school in search of their prey-and are suspected of brutally raping numerous women in the gutted van that was rigged to strap down their victims. But they may have gone farther than that...

When the body of 22-year-old Vanessa Lei Sampson was found by the side of a California highway, police zeroed in on Michaud and Daveggio, who may be responsible for the young woman's murder, as well as numerous rapes. In a case as strange and gruesome as fiction-one of the few in which a woman has taken part in sexual assault-author Carlton Smith explores the twisted motives and shocking exploits of this dark and deadly duo.

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Meet the Author

Carlton Smith wrote the New York Times bestselling The Search for the Green River Killer. An award-winning journalist for The Los Angeles Times and The Seattle Times during the 1970s and 1980s, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting in 1988. His books include Mind Games, Cold Blooded, The Prom Night Murders, Cold as Ice and In the Arms of Evil. There are more than two million copies of his books in print.

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Hunting EvilPLEASANTON, CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 2, 1997It was still dark when Vanessa Samson awoke on the last day of her life. The wet fog that seeped over the hills from the bay fell to the lowest places in the valley and hung on tight, an ice-cold blanket that muffled everything, even sound. A cold front had moved in a few days earlier, driving overnight temperatures to just above freezing. It wasn’t the kind of weather for walking, but then, Vanessa didn’t have a car.1Vanessa pulled on her clothes: a gray sweatshirt with its red San Diego State University lettering across the chest, a pair of blue jeans, and white Nike tennis shoes. She went out into the kitchen, ate a bowl of Cream of Wheat cereal, packed a lunch in her red nylon Safeway Stores lunch box, and put her things into her JanSport backpack. She went to the doorway of her mother Christina’s bedroom and said goodbye.A simple goodbye. That was it, a last word from a beloved child. But that’s the way it is with unexpected death. There are no warnings, no omens, no instinctive realization that someone you’ve cherished for all her life will never come home again. It’s just goodbye, a word that will stretch into the silence of eternity.

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Anonymous

Posted December 1, 2013

EnderScale

Coughed and looked around. " Hell, Lethal?"

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Anonymous

Posted September 26, 2013

Lethal TO ALL

New camp here.

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Anonymous

Posted August 23, 2013

Slayde

Leaves

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Anonymous

Posted August 23, 2013

Hell

Turned away." I need to go. Im sorry. Please take care of enderkit. I love you. Goodbye" she hesitantly got up and paded out

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Liz77LA

Posted February 1, 2013

Mediocre

The author's style of writing is all over the place in this book and it was very difficult for me to keep pace. The story is an interesting one, however, greater care could have been taken to accurately paint a picture for the reader.

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